Help with set lessons for y7 DS

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After any tips on how I can motivate my 11 year old DS to get through the online lessons and work set by school?

He would usually have 6 subjects per day at school and is being set 4 home lessons per day. These mainly consist of PowerPoint lessons and pages of questions.

So far it's taken about 2 hours to get through the first slide. Both me and DH are full time wfh and DS struggles work wise in usual circumstances but shows no willingness or ability to get through tasks in certain subjects. We got by last week but he is already falling behind and we are only on week 2.

He's not allowed his phone or switch until the days work is complete, but apart from sitting over him the whole time I'm not sure what I can do?

It does sound quite boring. Is there a more interesting way to cover the same topics? A documentary he could watch? Could you read the slides with him and then he can do the questions by himself?

Otherwise....some sort of bribery? A reward after each lesson? Maybe a bit of phone/switch time after each lesson so it feels more achievable than having to wait until it's all done?

I'ld try alternatives and see if he responds better to those. My year 8 DS (ASD) has same reaction to Powerpoint but online learning sites he will go through quite enthusiastically. I would let school know where you are having successes and failures - our school are adapting things.

Mine works better little and often rather than all in one go and I'm not doing consequences, just trying to get him motivated. He prefers me reading and writing it down but that might be his ASD or laziness or both.

Thanks, DS has sensory processing disorder so I understand why he is overwhelmed.

We have messaged his teachers today and they have all been supportive which has helped. Will try moving to little and often with movement breaks in between.

It's a particularly demanding time at work for me which is not helping. Thanks for your replies.